yum problem

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Dialup Jon Norstog
<thursday at allidaho.com> wrote:
> Matt, list:
>
> I've had some correspondence with jay Estabrook over the latst Alpha
> core/fedora 10. he has ben quite helpful, and it looks tome as if the fedora
> installer is the probelm, not the distro itself.

The installer and the package management system are the two things
that kind of make a distro in my mind.

> There just are not enough maintainers. Sergei Tixhonov was a real hero with
> the Alpha Core .9, 1.0 and 2.0 presses, but I think he has moved on. He was
> working with a PWS.  I'm not sure what the cirrent maintainers are using,
> maybe UP2000s.

I think that's just it--there aren't any maintainers.

> Anyway , Im pretty sure that it is an issue  issue with the installer.  Once
> you get all the stuff wirtten to disk, on reboot most of the services fail to
> light up, and you don't even get a log to work with.

Pretty much case-in-point.

> I might give gen2 a try, I'm not a loyalist.  But my feeling is this is the
> end of the trail for Alpha.

We'll do fine. :)

Matt

> jon norstog
>
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> From: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: yum problem
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>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Dialup Jon Norstog
>> <thursday at allidaho.com> wrote:
>> > Well, Matt,
>> >
>> > In order to fix the bugs you have to first get it to boot up.  Still no luck
>> > with the latest version on XP100 or PWS600.
>> >
>> > jon norstog
>>
>> I'm not sure what your intention was with this post, but it makes my
>> point exactly. :)
>>
>> Please, give Gentoo a try. We're all willing to help you--if you'll
>> help yourself. We're always in #alpha and #gentoo-alpha on
>> irc.freenode.net.
>>
>> Matt
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